Brother can you spare a dime? Or some time?

Ever see the movie “The Money Pit”? It’s a movie with Tom Hanks and Shelly Long as a young couple that buys a house that needs a little work. Well…a lot of work. Eventually it strains their finances, their marriage, and their sanity to the breaking point. Now I’m not in a similar situation, but I am beginning to see exactly how it feels to be a “Home-Ower”. Little things, like, scuffs on the walls, mysterious fingerprints, and the like slowly start to be seen. The warts slowly start to appear. Why is there a piece of moulding missing? What is that stain? Why did they paint OVER the cable line? It’s odd, some of the rooms are near perfect. And, some of the rooms look as if they had a good idea, but got bored really, really quickly. There’s nothing to make me really regret our purchase, but I realize that this is a marathon, and not a sprint. On the short list of repairs we have: painting about seven rooms, of which two are done, replacing carpeting in at least 5 rooms, and having the rest cleaned, buy a lawn mower, and replacing ceiling fans that could do a decent job of decapitation, as they are too low. On the longer list we have: Replace all windows, rerun phone and cable lines, and build a deck in the nice spacious back yard. The short list really needs to be done by Monday, the day the movers show up…

/sigh.
Wow. So little time to relax this week, with the house renovations, work, the Pastor Nominating Committee meeting, the Session meeting, a wife’s Manufacturing Association’s baseball outing, and needing to purchase furniture. I think the only time I’ve had the computer on is at work. So, I’ve not even logged onto World of Warcraft this week. I signed up as an alternate/summons monkey for Zul’Gurub on Friday night, and that may be the only WoW I play this weekend, or next. With the plan to move on Monday, and DSL and cable not being installed till Saturday, I will be internet-less and TV-less for almost a full week! I think I plan on drinking heavily to stop of addiction pangs…